Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-05-21
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| ployer while she drives MIN
A huge iron reservoir is being built
at remote spot in the outer harbor Of
Amsterdam, N. Y, for the storage of
petroleum. 1t will be nearly thirty
three feet in diameter and of the same
depth, and is calculated to hold l, 740,-
600 gallons.
The Empress of China has selected
thirty-six pretty girls of high rank to
train them to be Expresses and wait
ing-women. Those who are to be de-
voted to the higher career are classified
as 1.-TWO dabs" in red-ink characters,
and the others as lone dab"
Harrison Willard, the ballad COM
poser" says the New York Sun, sis
| frequently seen at the at homes Of
ladies who hold weekly gatherings. He
! is tall, well-built man. with grayish
hair, and is celebrated for a rather
languid manner that many young men
envy"
The luncheons given in Washington
are characterized by prominent color.
A yellow luncheon was lighted with yell
low and olive candles; the flowers were
yellow roses, the central strip of plush
was yellow. At a pink luncheon the
favors were pink sachets. with bunch
of violets at the top of each.
Workmen engaged in digging chan
mel at the outlet of Megunticook lake,
Camden, Me-, have found, three feet
below the surface of the ground, an
Gent flats. which yielded countless
varieties of mussel, scollop, and conch
shells. Several rocks. covered with
barnacles, were also discovered.
The objection to the incandescent
light in mines, that it gave no indica-
ton of fire-damp. has been removed by
placing two together, one colored and
the other a clear light. Amercury con-
tact, subject to the pressure from diffu-
sion in an unglazed porcelain pot, all
lows the clear light to burn in clear
atmosphere, but lights the colored one
in fire-damp.
In Fredericton, N. B., few days ago,
captain of the Salvation army walked
out of store with a lot of eggs, when
mis- foot slipped, and down he went
with the eggs under him. He never
said a word when the boys laughed,
though he looked mad, and in the even
ing at the meeting he told how the devil
had got into the eggs just to try and
get him to swear. His soldiers became
uproariously happy when he told how
he had defeated his santanic majesty by
keeping his mouth shut
Workmen while repairing a house in
Brooklyn, N. Y, one day last week,
discovered bag containing $500 in
gold under one of the floors, and turned
It over to the landlord. The last occu-
pant a man whose wife died in the
house, now sues the landlord for the
money, alleging that his late thrifty
helpmate used to extract money from
his pockets habitually, that he could
never find trace of it, and is convinced
that the concealed treasure was the &C.
cumulated deposits she had relieved
him of.
Consumption, Boston physician, DIR.
Cushing, asserts, is transferable not
only by inhalation, but by wounds or
cuts infected by tuberculous expectora-
tions; also by the milk of tuberculous
mothers, or by the flesh or milk of tuber-
culous cattle. Our laws now afford no
protection against this last-named
danger, and strong public opinion is
necessary to compel the inspection of
mich COWS, and the slaughter of all
found tuberculous, as well as the rejec-
ton of all flesh of tuberculous cattle"
A cashier in New York bank is the
victim of peculiar belief. Every night
at 10 o'clock he walks up Fifth avenue
to see whether or not certain million
aires front door has Grape tied to it
For over four years he has made this
nightly journey. He doesn't know the
millionaire. nor any reason why his
death should be expected. Yet he has
superstition that when he discovers
the Grape he looks for, on that same
night some great good fortune is to fall
to his own lot He has tried to shake
off this feeling, but it will not depart.
1t is said that whenever an eruption
of the Bromo volcano, Japan, takes
place, the natives, as soon as the fire
(the molten lava no doubt is meant)
comes down the mountain, kindle at it
the wood they use as fuel for cooking.
They keep in the fire thus made for
years, and whenever it goes out through
neglect or for any other reason they
never kindle it anew from matches, but
they get a light from their nearest
neighbors, whose fire was originally OBJ
tanned from the volcano. The fires in
use up 10 the latest outburst in the ma
tive cooking-places were all obtained
from the Bromo eruption of 1882.
A new musical affair, the humani-
phone, was recently exhibited at a
church fair in Worcester, Mass. The
instrument consisted of young ladies,
representing the tone of the scale,
arranged behind a screen, showing only
their heads and shoulders. They wore
white masks reaching to the mouth, and
around the neck of each was suspended
by a ribbon the number of the scale
represented. A young lady stood in
'front.' who, with a wand played tunes
by pointing to the one whose number
was the tone wanted, which was
promptly uttered. Rounds and other
pieces were sung, making a unique and
amusing affair.
A remarkable woman died few DAYS
ago at Villa Rica, Ca, aged 92 years.